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Brenda Villagomez Alex Sprenger Ashlee Trammel 6th hour Medicine/Illness in the Elizabethan Era The diseases were common, but the recovery was rare. People during this time didn’t know about the microscopic critters, so they blamed illness on the stars andEngland’s climate. What physicians used for treatments was odd, and the common diseases they dealt with is similar to what we deal with today, but what caused them was much different.

It was odd what the physicians used for their treatments of patients. They didn’t have the medical practice we do today, so they worked with what they had and know. The huge Bubonic Plague they tried to treat it with different remedies using tobacco, lily root, and dried toad. Head pains were treated with sweet-smelling herbs, such as rose, lavender, sage, and bay. The stomach pains and sicknesses were treated with wormwood, mint, and balm. Different lung problems were given the medical treatment of liquorices and comfrey.